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With Chosen, debut novelist Chandra Hoffman has gained immediate comparisons to Jodi Picoult and Anna Quindlen. In Chosen, a young caseworker becomes significantly entangled in the lives of adoptive and delivery parents, with devastating results. It all commences with a fantasy: the caseworker in her "signing paperwork" charcoal suit position alongside beaming parents cradling their adopted newborn, placed against a fluorescent-lit delivery-room backdrop. It's this blissful picture that will keep Chloe Pinter, director of the Chosen Child's domestic-adoption program, happy while juggling the high needs of her manager and the incessant needs of both adoptive and natural parents. But the very job that offers her refuge from her turbulent personal life and Portland's winter rains soon becomes a battleground regarding three completely different couples: the Novas, well-off university sweethearts who experienced fertility problems but are now anticipating their own baby; the McAdoos, a prosperous husband and desperate partner for whom adoption is a final chance; and Jason and Penny, an impoverished couple who've nothing-except the infant everyone wants. When a child goes absent, dreams dissolve into nightmares, and many people are forced to examine what she or he really wants and where everything went wrong. Told from alternating items of view, Chosen unveils the desperate aspect of desire across sociable backgrounds and how far people will go to get the thing they think will be the answer.
